No pay, no respect, no chill days - Member of Technical Staff Product Development Engineer AMD Employee Review

1.0
Dec 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You'll end up developing a habit of self learning, and documenting work with assumption that you wont be around to deal with its problems next time.

Cons

Purely executional work, driven only by deadlines regardless of how experienced the teams are or how many challenges the products pose. No respect for fellow employees and an overall air of anger from all higher management translating to a revolving door of engineers. No team members are between tenure age of 4-10 years. You either leave by year 4 when rsu vest or become part of the cutlure and stay another 10

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Cons

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Pros

It's a big company. So, a lot of great benefits and high pay. Also, a lot of opportunity for career advancement and internal transfers if a particular job/team doesn't fit (to avoid losing RSUs). Plus, they're not too hard on you regarding performance since all the performance reviews are qualitative rather than quantitative (that could be both a pro and a con, honestly).

Cons

It's a big company. So, a lot of bureaucracy. They get in the way of themselves requiring endless approvals for spending. Also small organizations within AMD being territorial about their particular domain rather than being as open as possible inhibits rapid progress. Also, pushing for "diversity and inclusion" is racist. They should ignore race, not try to have a representative sampling of the population. I give them a low score there because DEI is racist. But not minimal because it's only something the HR dept cares about, normal employees effectively ignore race from what I can tell. So even if management is woke, the company (the individuals) are not.

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